BILL NUMBER: ACR 131	CHAPTERED  06/09/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   77
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 9, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JUNE 8, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 15, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Villaraigosa

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 131--Relative to the Mattel
Children's Hospital.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 131, Villaraigosa.  Mattel Children's Hospital.
   This measure would declare the Mattel Children's Hospital at the
University of California, Los Angeles, to be one of the preeminent
children's hospitals in the United States.




   WHEREAS, The Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA), offers a full range of primary,
specialty, and subspecialty care, in both inpatient and outpatient
settings, to infants, children, and adolescents throughout Southern
California and beyond; and
   WHEREAS, Physicians at the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA care
for more than 27,000 children each year; and
   WHEREAS, The Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA serves as a major
regional center for pediatric care for the children of California,
including those with special health care needs, as designated by the
California Department of Health Services; and
   WHEREAS, The Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA serves as the
primary teaching site for pediatric care at the UCLA School of
Medicine; and
   WHEREAS, Faculty physicians at the Mattel Children's Hospital at
UCLA have made significant medical research discoveries in the areas
of HIV/AIDS, cancer, genetics, organ transplantation, and neurology
to help children around the world; and
   WHEREAS, The Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA is a distinct and
integral part of the UCLA Medical Center, a general acute care
hospital in Los Angeles; and
   WHEREAS, Since 1995, the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA has
met the rigorous standards required for designation as a children's
hospital by the National Association of Children's Hospitals and
Related Institutions; and
   WHEREAS, In November 1998, the Mattel Corporation pledged $25
million to UCLA to support patient care and research programs in
pediatrics and the construction of a new state-of-the-art health care
facility; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby declares that the
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA is one of the preeminent children'
s hospitals in the United States.
